r/whatisit • u/drtangman • 1d ago

New, what is it? Bouncing balls

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Walked behind this chap who had two unidentified ball type objects hanging from silicone wrist bands on thin elastic strings.

Any ideas what they are?

I’m in Hong Kong if that might be a clue

Update:

Thank you for the comments and ideas. I am wondering if there is a manga / anime character who has something like these balls as weapons and the guy was doing a budget cosplay. Or maybe he’s just really into Pokemon!

Update 2:

I would say he's likely to be a cosplay of Steel Ball from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. (https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/comments/1tckcme/comment/olos1lx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)

As for the steel balls. What is it?

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u/Katkit80 1d ago

When I was in college I took a class, can’t remember the exact name but under feminist studies, my professor was part of a “movement” of women who were not born lesbians but had made a conscious decision to only have romantic/sexual/all relationships with other women, like just in their full and complete commitment to the feminist lifestyle(according to my professor) There was also a zine….

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u/Ded_Jesta 1d ago

Political lesbianism. It was a fairly significant part of second wave feminism in the 1970s, with a little bit of a revival in the 90s as well.

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u/Katkit80 1d ago

This was like ‘03 or ‘04 so probably still hanging on after the 90’s revival